Letter 50116: To Generosus, my noble and justly distinguished lord, my honored and much-loved son, Augustine sends greeting in the...
Letter 116 (A.D. 410)
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Enclosed in the Foregoing Letter.
To Generosus, My Noble and Justly Distinguished Lord, My Honoured and Much-Loved Son, Augustine Sends Greeting in the Lord.
Although the praises and favourable report of your administration and your own illustrious good name always give me the greatest pleasure because of the love which we feel due to your merit and to your benevolence, on no occasion have I hitherto been burdensome to your Excellency as an intercessor requesting any favour from you, my much-loved lord and justly-honoured son. When, however, your Excellency has learned from the letters which I have sent to my venerable brother and colleague, Fortunatus, what has occurred in the town in which I serve the Church of God, your kind heart will at once perceive the necessity under which I have been constrained to trespass by this petition on your time, already fully occupied. I am perfectly assured that, cherishing towards us the feeling which, in the name of Christ, we are fully warranted to expect, you will act in this matter as becomes not only an upright, but also a Christian magistrate.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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